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Woman escapes abductors through car trunk
A 30-year-old Barrackpore woman was rescued by police yesterday after she escaped from the trunk of a car.Police said the womanâs hands were tied and a piece of cloth was stuffed in her mouth when she...
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Man crushed to death while demolishing house
Marabella handyman Brian Ifill went to do a dayâs work to demolish an abandoned house in Gasparillo yesterday, but he never made it back home after the house caved in, killing him instantly.Ifillâs...
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MASSA DAY DONE
Saying massa days are over, OWTUâs president general, Ancel Roget, yesterday criticised the Government for not standing up to multinational corporations which he claimed were shamelessly using T&T...
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Cop kidnapped, left on highway
Gasping for breath with a plastic bag over his head, an off-duty police officer, who was the victim of robbers, wiggled his way to the edge of the Solomon Hochoy Highway yesterday, before he was...
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Rowley, Young must come clean on Massy buyoutâKamla
Calling for transparency in last weekâs $255 million buyout of Massyâs Communications Ltd by state-owned Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT), Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
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Ex-con slain 3 days after freedom
Three days after being released from prison, a Rio Claro man was shot dead in his home on Saturday evening.Police said Anderson Nicholas, 28, of Lazzari Road, was inside his house around 5 pm when a...
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PoS market vendors protest dislocation for new walkover
Displaced Port-of-Spain Market vendors blocked off vehicular access to the facility and caused a massive traffic gridlock during a protest yesterday.The protest occurred after vendors were told a large...
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Karim: GATE pressure ahead
On the heels of the property tax comes a new type of tax to be imposed on students from August and it will have a devastating impact on tertiary education, says Chaguanas East MP Fazal Karim.He was...
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Mitchell: No new golf course for Ste Madeleine
Housing Minister Randall Mitchell has come out in defence of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, denying that Government plans to build a golf course in Ste Madeleine as claimed by Opposition Leader Kamla...
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Cancer patients turned away
Chemotherapy sessions at the San Fernando Oncology Centre were cancelled and scores of desperately ill patients were turned away yesterday because the pharmacist who mixes the drugs called in sick.The...
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We need solutions and help
Southern Division police have taken their fight against crime through the streets of the south city, not only through raids, lock-downs and road blocks but through community partnership programmes.On...
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Aboud: Discrepancies in oil spill
Demanding to know why no navigational warnings were issued after high density oil escaped from the ruptured Tank 70 at Petrotrinâs facility, corporate secretary of Fishermen and Friends of the Sea Gary...
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Cancer patients to get chemo relief
Cancer patients who have been unable to get chemotherapy treatment at the San Fernando Oncology Centre because the lone pharmacist fell ill, will get some relief from today.In an interview yesterday,...
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Petrotrin upgrade to cost $16 billion
Petrotrin President Fitzroy Harewood admits that the state-owned company is too reactive when it comes to safety saying it would cost approximately $16 billion over the next four years to repair...
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Petrotrin boosts production
State-owned Petrotrin has started increasing its crude production from 41,000 barrels per day in February this year to 46,438 barrels per day at the end of April, President Fitzroy Harewood revealed...
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Evicted South families in rain
Three of the 25 families evicted from Housing Development Corporation (HDC) apartments at Harmony Hall, Gasparillo, on March 20 are still living in tents on the compound.With the start of the rainy...
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Boy fractures skull
Parents are renewing their call for Government to fix the railings of the Fifth Company Baptist Primary school, after a Standard Two pupil fell over it last week, fracturing his skull.School officials...
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Chatham students beg for new school
Frustrated that their new school has not yet been completed, students and parents of Chatham Government Primary School yesterday staged a fiery protest, demanding that the Ministry of Education...
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Worker killed after explosion
A week after an ammonia gas cylinder exploded at Massy Gas Products (Trinidad) Ltd one of two workers injured died at the Southern Medical Clinic in San Fernando yesterday. Gary Mohammed, 32, of Mon...
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PM, Kamla stalling PCA appointment
The Office of President Anthony Carmona says the vacancy of deputy director at the Police Complaints Authority has not yet been filled because neither the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley or Opposition...
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